How in-app purchases have destroyed the game industry

Re:How in-app purchases have destroyed the game industry by smsm42 on Saturday February 01, 2014 @07:06PM (#7164075)

Vegas is not ripping you off. Vegas is selling entertainment of the game, not winning. Except small percentage of professional gamblers, most people won't go to Vegas if not for the experience that surrounds the gambling process. Otherwise you could just as well play state lottery or gamble on forex markets online. Would also save on the plane ticket.

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Re:How in-app purchases have destroyed the game industry by wpietri on Sunday February 02, 2014 @06:16PM (#7168037)

I was using "Vegas" as shorthand for "the gambling industry". Which is selling an addictive product that makes people worse off in direct proportion to the amount they consume. Which, yes, sells the hope of winning. Talk to anybody on a flight to Vegas and ask them if they hope to win. If they're playing, they're not playing to lose.

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Re:How in-app purchases have destroyed the game industry by smsm42 on Monday February 03, 2014 @04:27AM (#7169645)

There's a difference between hoping to win and hoping to win being only reason of going there. If you ask me whether I hope to be a billionaire one day, I'd say, sure, why not, I'll take it. But that's different from actually working on becoming one.

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Re:How in-app purchases have destroyed the game industry by brc on Sunday February 02, 2014 @07:41PM (#7168266)

But if they are happy to spend their money on the playing of the game...it's not like they are being tricked any more than the purchaser of an overpriced handbag.

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Re:How in-app purchases have destroyed the game industry by wpietri on Tuesday February 04, 2014 @01:33PM (#7179345)

Go to Vegas. Look at the expressions on the faces of people playing. Almost nobody looks happy there.

As far as I know, handbag addiction is not a serious problem. Gambling addiction is.

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